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Showing videos filed under: marriage
Kate Clinton: Really Graphic
October 27, 2010Kate Clinton's trying to figure out just why LGBT Americans might be a little depressed this election season. Could it be Sharron Angle? Don't Ask, Don't Tell? Marriage equality? She tracks our country's up-and-down movement on her "It Gets Better" index, and reminds everyone to get out and vote on November 2nd.Mike Papantonio, Kate Clinton, Money Media & Corruption
October 26, 2010“It's not an election, it's an auction,” says Mike Papantonio of the corporate cash pouring into elections around the country. Papantonio's home state of Florida has seen both its Senate and governor's races attracting national attention, as Tea Party candidates in both races argue for cutting benefits and wages in the name of deficits, and ignore crumbling infrastructure.Courage Campaign: Equality Now!
August 7, 2010A judge this week overturned California's Proposition 8, which outlawed gay marriage in the state, but the fight is hardly over. Our friends at the Courage Campaign are continuing to track the National Organization for Marriage's Summer of Marriage tour, and provided us with this footage at yet another event.El General, Strange Powers, and Andrea Plaid
August 6, 2010Filmmaker Natalia Almada looks at the history of Mexico through a unique lens--her great-grandfather was Plutarco Elias Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924. He remains a controversial figure, remembered as much for his legacy in founding Mexico's premier political party and helping create its government as his dictatorial style and violent rule.Proposition 8, Haiti 6 Months After, and the 14th Amendment
August 5, 2010In the nearly two years since Proposition 8 passed in California, putting a blot on the progressive victories of Election Day 2008 by taking marriage rights away from gay and lesbian citizens, there have been plenty of protests, arguments, and court cases. But when a judge appointed by George H.W. Bush struck down the law as unconstitutional on August 4, citing the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, celebration broke out around the country.The F Word: What Good is the 14th Amendment?
August 5, 2010The 14th amendment has done it again! No wonder right wing radicals want to repeal it. Just a few days ago, in Congress, Tea Partiers and their pals were signing up 93 co-sponsors up for a bill to repeal the thing, or at least change it, to be clear that it can't and shouldn't justify citizenship for those born to inadequately documented people in the U.S.Courage Campaign: Fighting Bigotry Across America
August 5, 2010There's struggles in the courts and there's struggles in the streets over the question of marriage equality. The National Organization for Marriage is running its "Summer of Marriage" tour across the country, "defending" the institution of marriage from those who think it should be open to ALL people. California's Courage Campaign has been following the tour, and in Indianapolis, they interviewed Larry Adams, who was holding a sign with two nooses drawn on it. They shared this video with us.Bill Fletcher Jr., Holy Wars, and Courage Campaign
August 4, 2010Barack Obama spent his 49th birthday speaking to labor leaders at an AFL-CIO federation meeting, but GRITtv commentator Bill Fletcher, Jr. noted that Obama needs to do more than attend meetings--it's time for some action on the Employee Free Choice Act. In addition, Fletcher notes, Obama should be situating himself among working people, not just union higher-ups, against the "economic royalists" who would keep the economy's fundamental inequality.Melissa Harris-Lacewell: We Don't Have to Agree
April 28, 2010Financial reform came up for a test vote this week in the Senate--and the Republican party (plus Ben Nelson) voted to filibuster the bill before even debating the subject. Will GOP political posturing continue to hold progress hostage? What's the point of being the Party of No, and will the Republicans' apparent decision to stick to that line finally push Obama to decide that there's no point in trying to win them over, and lead him to making progressive choices--for the Supreme Court, say?Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Lisa Shannon and Superfront
April 27, 2010Financial reform came up for a test vote this week in the Senate--and the Republican party (plus Ben Nelson) voted to filibuster the bill before even debating the subject. Will GOP political posturing continue to hold progress hostage? What's the point of being the Party of No, and will the Republicans' apparent decision to stick to that line finally push Obama to decide that there's no point in trying to win them over, and lead him to making progressive choices--for the Supreme Court, say?
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